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Federal (USV)

Private

Casper Mowser

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 66th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted as Private, Company G, 66th Ohio Infantry on 8 December 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the face in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at the Smoketown hospital on 10 October 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried at Smoketown but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as Casper Mouser. His service from the Roster.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1843

Death

10/10/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3955]

2 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 5, pg. 548 [AotW citation 25249]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 330 [AotW citation 25250]

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